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Universe, Volume 5, Issue 9

2019 September - 13 articles

Cover Story: Hawking’s prediction that black holes radiate indicates a basic inconsistency with quantum laws. Some very basic assumptions imply that quantum information must escape black holes, to restore the validity of quantum mechanics. This appears to imply new physics, beyond classical general relativity, at distances comparable to the horizon radius. Various proposals for such new physics have been considered. A very conservative possibility is that there are new interactions between the quantum state of the black hole and nearby matter and fields. From the viewpoint of an observer near the horizon, these can behave like fluctuations in the spacetime geometry near the horizon. Some such scenarios could lead to the distortion of black hole images, arising from light propagation near the horizon, and be visible to the Event Horizon Telescope. View this paper.
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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,718 Views
14 Pages

An Overview of Quasinormal Modes in Modified and Extended Gravity

  • Flora Moulin,
  • Aurélien Barrau and
  • Killian Martineau

19 September 2019

As gravitational waves are now being nearly routinely measured with interferometers, the question of using them to probe new physics becomes increasingly legitimate. In this article, we rely on a well established framework to investigate how the comp...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
4,391 Views
6 Pages

17 September 2019

The impressive images from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) sharpen the conflict between our observations of gravitational phenomena and the principles of quantum mechanics. Two related scenarios for reconciling quantum mechanics with the existence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Citations
3,765 Views
9 Pages

15 September 2019

The swampland criteria are generically in tension with single-field slow-roll inflation because the first swampland criterion requires small tensor-to-scalar ratio while the second swampland criterion requires either large tensor-to-scalar ratio or l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,706 Views
9 Pages

Mapping the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy 1H 0323+342

  • Luigi Foschini,
  • Stefano Ciroi,
  • Marco Berton,
  • Stefano Vercellone,
  • Patrizia Romano and
  • Valentina Braito

14 September 2019

Taking advantage of the most recent measurements by means of high-resolution radio observations and other multiwavelength campaigns, it is possible to elaborate a detailed map of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxy 1H 0323 + 342 . This map will o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,204 Views
18 Pages

13 September 2019

The possibility of an equilibrium state of a gravitating scalar field (describing ordinary matter) inside a black hole, compressed to the state of boson condensate, in balance with a longitudinal vector field (describing dark matter) from the outside...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,341 Views
19 Pages

12 September 2019

For systems with extremely low accretion rate, such as Galactic Center Sgr A* and M87 galaxy, the ion collisional mean free path can be considerably larger than its Larmor radius. In this case, the gas pressure is anisotropic to magnetic field lines....

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,232 Views
9 Pages

7 September 2019

Study of the open-charm hadron production in heavy-ion collisions is crucial for understanding the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. In these papers, we report on a selection of recent STAR measurements of open-charm hadrons in Au+Au collisions a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,569 Views
9 Pages

4 September 2019

The quark gluon plasma is formed in heavy-ion collisions, and it can be described by solutions of relativistic hydrodynamics. In this paper we utilize perturbative hydrodynamics, where we study first order perturbations on top of a known solution. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,843 Views
12 Pages

Identifying Quark Matter in Hybrid Stars through Relativistic Tidal Deformations

  • Bryen Irving,
  • Thomas Klähn,
  • Prashanth Jaikumar,
  • Marc Salinas and
  • Wei Wei

30 August 2019

We study a specific model of neutron star matter that supports a phase transition to quark matter at high density and examine parameter ranges for consistency with the mass-weighted tidal deformability of Λ ˜ = 300 230 + 420 for a m...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,110 Views
22 Pages

Selected Topics in Numerical Methods for Cosmology

  • Sandro Dias Pinto Vitenti and
  • Mariana Penna-Lima

29 August 2019

The large amount of cosmological data already available (and in the near future) makes the development of efficient numerical codes necessary. Many software products have been implemented to perform cosmological analyses considering one or few probes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,563 Views
20 Pages

Kerr Black Holes within a Modified Theory of Gravity

  • Peter O. Hess and
  • Enrique López-Moreno

28 August 2019

The Kerr black hole is studied within a modified theory of gravity, which adds the effects of vacuum fluctuations near a black hole. These vacuum fluctuations are treated as a dark energy. A parameter is introduced to account for these fluctuations....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,260 Views
11 Pages

Rotation Sensing Lasers in General Relativity: Some Technical Notes and Current Advances

  • K. Ulrich Schreiber,
  • André Gebauer,
  • Jan Kodet,
  • Caroline L. Anyi and
  • Jon-Paul R. Wells

21 August 2019

We review the current status of large ring laser gyroscopes having the potential to contribute to terrestrial measurements of general relativistic precessions. At this point in time, although these devices possess the raw sensitivity for such a measu...

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Universe - ISSN 2218-1997